Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,
In the wake of the United Airlines debacle - in which the airline had airport police assault one of its own customers - customers have begun to ask why there doesn't seem to be more competition for United to contend with. They ask: would United treat its customers so poorly if they had more competition?
Maybe not.
Is the Airline Industry Competitive?
Authored by Christof Gisiger via Finanz Und Wirtschaft,
Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, warns of more turmoil ahead if the developed world fails to adapt to the fundamental forces of global change.
'Exceptional' America is seriously lagging behind in global life expectancy...
Via: MesoTreatmentCenters.org
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Life Expectancy Indicates a Country’s Overall Well Being—So Why Is Ours Dropping?
Authored by Ben Tanosborn,
Donald Trump may have been told by his advisers that launching fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles, at a $15 million cost, against the small Shayrat air base in Syria was “necessary” and morally significant in retaliation for the recent chemical attack on Khan Sheikhun. A way to show Bashar al-Assad America’s outrage at the dictator’s presumed deeds… even if results from such action prove to be materially insignificant.
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison
Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn’t making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it’s certainly not making America great again, and it’s undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.
In fact, it’s a wonder the economy hasn’t collapsed yet.